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another week of shows. we are grateful. "the beat" starts now. happy friday. >> have a great weekend. this busy week in politics draws to a close. we are heading into a weekend marking three weeks since that news broke that kamala harris was entering the presidential race when joe biden exited, driving headlines that shifted from all that democratic panic and in-fighting to a sheer party exuberance. her campaign has been achieving lot, reshaping the race into ray contrast between the familiar and unpopular donald trump who looks like he is doing the political equivalent of airing reruns from seasons past, a contrast between that and this newer face for many voters, especially the non-news junkies, kamala harris. donald trump's reruns seem lower energy. fewer rallies, less than half that he did in the summer of '16.

democrats are in on this new race, embracing harris with the donations and memes and big crowds, trump seems struck in the matchup that's now over. fixating on the history of his duel with biden. a week has seen harris dominating and dominating the news cycles and the message. during that set of remarks he ended up talking about biden, again. adopting a stance that even his supporters probably do not believe. trump trying to express a narrative where he says he feels bad for how biden was treat and left the race. the delegates have formally voted to make harris the nominee. trump has been posting about how he imagines or wishes that

president biden could still somehow come back and be his democratic opponent again this year. that's been driving headlines about how trump can't get over this. does anyone miss biden as much as trump? that's how "the new yorker" is raising the question. for 18 days, trump has refused to let go of his grief, alternating between anger and denial at the loss of his favorite target. freaked out by harris' rise in the polls, trump all but demanded biden return to the race. look, these are not the headlines that trump's campaign team wants. they do not make trump look strong. they do not offer voters anything. these aren't headlines about your life or the choice in november or policies, obviously. these headlines don't even address trump's current opponent. of course, in a campaign, you have to deal with the current opponent, not the one you wish you still had.

this is trump's opponent. trump lost his presidency to biden. the rejection of his single term in political life. he thought he could beat biden this time. he was not alone. now trump lost in a different way. he lost his rematch. he lost his chance at political revenge. if he does lose to harris, he lost the opponent he might have beaten. trump is fixated on biden for all those reasons. he is unable to move on. he is hung up on this figure from the past. trump verging on his own costanza moment, living in the past. >> you should forget it. you are living in the past, man. you are hung up on some clown from the '60s, man. >> it's hard to live in the past. most campaigns are about the future. harris and walz are making the case against going back. you have probably heard that.

today they are campaigning in arizona. we can see already, as we have been monitoring it, this is one of the time lapses of the very, very long lines of people waiting to see this new ticket. we should note, it's over 100 degrees there. people are waiting and waiting and waiting to get in to see it. arizona is one of the places trump lost to biden when fox news called the state for biden. all heck broke loose. harris is linking her story to america's priorities and the future of housing, prices and health care. >> she grew up in a middle class home. she was the daughter of a working mom. she worked at mcdonald's while she got her degree. she knows what it's like to be middle class. it's why she's determined to lower health care costs and make housing more affordable. donald trump has no plan -- >> those are the harris campaign's priorities talking about policy and their future.

donald trump tonight, montana. kind of a curious call. it's another day where donald trump is not in a battleground state as he holds fewer rallies. trump is there to link up with a republican senate candidate. this is the contrast. some of it is kind of permanent or unshakable. there are things people know about donald trump and his policies and his style. there are things that the democrats, first under biden and now under harris, are offering. a policy consistency. the new contrast from harris to trump is clearly so different and so much scarier for trump that he hasn't fully absorbed it. he is living in the past. exactly as that clown told george not to do. the democrats' recent past involves kamala harris evolving into the role she is holding today where people feel as vice president she's got some real governing experience and as a

candidate she's more experienced and polished than the last time she ran for national office. think about the dnc. here was harris at the last convention when she was the vp nominee. >> my mother taught me that service to others gives life purpose and meaning. and oh, how i wish she were here tonight. i know she's looking down on me from above. she probably could have never imagined that i would be standing before you now and speaking these words. i accept your nomination for vice president of the united states of america. >> we will hear something similar at the next convention, maybe more applause if it's not a covid festivity. we are joined by juanita tolliver.

eleanor clift with "the daily beast." welcome to both of you. >> thanks. >> eleanor, the past is something to know and learn from but not always to live in. >> right. >> what do you think of this contrast and the way donald trump -- he lies a lot. we covered that. he sometimes emotionally blurts what he is feeling. he doesn't want to deal with running against what may be a harder opponent. >> he feels cheated. he was supposed to run against biden. now he will run against somebody else he hardly knows. she's, of course, incompetent. he is suggesting there was a constitutional funny business that she has no right to be occupying this position. he is always -- it sounds unhinged, but he is salting the water for arguments he is going

to make later on. he does not know how to run in any other run that he being aggrieved. first the courts were getting him. now the country has confused him because he has a different opponent. he has to start all over. the thing is that after a while people want to hear what this election means for them. they are tired of hearing about him. you are right about the rallies. people are leaving early. he keeps them waiting for an hour and a half in 90-degree heat. then he goes on for an hour and a half and says some of the most absurd things. in his press conference yesterday, he is talking about taking on martin luther king junior saying that his -- trump's rallies have gotten more people than king did. king got 250,000 people in a country that was a lot smaller than it is today. i'm waiting to see what the republicans have.

i think the -- that walz got out of the reserves because he didn't want to go to iraq, he fought that back before. i don't think people are in a mood for this. just because these attacks worked in the past doesn't mean they will work this time. the liberal agenda he supposedly is so radical, go one by one, it's most things that poll very popularly and that most people would like, like childcare, lunches that don't discriminate against poor kids who have to identify as poor. everything is so good right now. i almost don't want to jinx it. i'm going to go with the joy. like reagan once said, trust but verify. there's a lot of hard work ahead. >> right. there's more enthusiasm than there was is an emotion and a start. campaigns have to end.

there's a lot of voter turnout and other work to be done. juanita, we see the warning signals are coming from the right. "the wall street journal" is part of murdoch's media shared with fox. they have a piece saying trump might blow another election. saying in public or private -- what i should say republicans are lamenting in private. they say he lost it. the long speeches that become a bundle of personal grievances and floundering. he lacks any consistent message. it's not only he could blow the election, he could hurt other republican candidates. >> welcome to reality. this has been the case for years. donald trump is doing this. while you were doing your intro about trump being upset about kamala harris as his opponent, i was thinking of lil wayne. harris and walz are saying, we are here. we see that by the line in arizona in heat, people lined up. the people who are ready to do

the work for the campaign. i'm talking about the donations which have been historic. two-thirds from first-time donors. 200,000 new volunteers have signed up for this campaign. they are ready to knock on doors, make the phone calls, contact the voters all based on motivation or hope, as you were alluding to, presented with the new ticket. the way harris and walz campaign together in a joyous way in contrast to the ramblings that make you question what is happening in donald trump's mind, or as he announced recently, he is not campaigning again until after the dnc, then you have the harris walz campaign saying, go ahead and get your rest, old man. we know you don't care about anything or anybody except for playing golf. go rest. >> we appreciate lil wayne. he could speak to the harris campaign's fund-raising. he did say, too much money, it ain't enough money. >> i mean, they will keep raising. >> that's a little bit of the

contrast. tim walz is new on the scene. i want to look at the reception. it's striking. he is getting as much love for his relatable style as his policies. there have been jokes from fans who imagine him as the ever man good samaritan neighborhood. "the washington post" wrote people saying that he might take -- he beeps at you for the red light. motions for you to put your window down and tells you, your right rear tire could use air. imagiing the kind of guy he is. a political comedian has been riffing about how walz could probably fit in making classic dad jokes. >> so excited for tim walz. we finally have a vice president who is giving us midwestern dad stuff. after he finishes his blooming onion and he is like, looks like i hated it. a vice president who loves the

city of chicago but not as much as he loves the band chicago. a vice president who wants to know what the secret ingredient is. tim, it's paprika. >> it goes on like that, lol. i should mention that comic makes his debut tonight by the end of the hour. it speaks to something we have been discussing, that walz is a political popsicle when it comes to mixing midwestern appeal and liberal policies like the firecracker popsicles. the red on top that you see, but so much blue in the middle. >> a throwback. >> we covered this last night. mr. symbols maga tried to seize. they have somehow claimed are only owned by republicans, which they are not. there's the popsicle comparison. this is a guy who people have learned was a football coach and a teacher and hunter. as the comics say, someone who would fit in making a dad joke at denney's.

>> he has great one liners. mind your own damn business. that goes the heart of a lot of his policies. you don't need policies that discriminate against people. he is able to deliver attack lines with a smile. sometimes -- i think he went a little too far with the couch -- >> i disagree entirely. he delivered it in a way if you knew what he was talking about, you knew. if you didn't, you understood it was shade. >> you object because? >> i don't object. i kind of went like that a little bit. >> in fairness, without -- as we do in the news, without repeating the thing that's not true, he was alluding to a type of misinformation that is trying to tear down j.d. vance. there are some -- i'm curious where you come down. there are some who say, they would rather focus -- it's better to focus on the true, real problem with j.d. vance, not made up things. >> if that was true, i would

have laughed. the fact that it's disinformation and i had to look that up to figure that out, i don't think you want to put the voters through those steps. that's a minor issue compared to everything else. the way he has really reached people of all kinds -- who would have thought a middle-aged man who looks older than 60 years would somehow become a hit on social media? social media, for all its flaws, it's driving the conversation. they have made kamala harris' laugh a positive thing. that was a major attack line from trump, the crazy laugh. >> you make an important point that i want to dig into as we think about the women's coalition here, which is you don't have to be a woman to stand up for women's rights. indeed, these things work better when people work together. >> yes. >> bernie sanders was up there in years. he had a lot of young fans.

i covered that campaign. it wasn't that people who were 20 and thinking about their college debt or the world they were inheriting were saying, i only want to support a 20-year-old presidential candidate, which isn't con stip -- constitutional. the idea you can be cool but be yourself. it seems to be walz's authenticity. the other big issue, women's rights, choice, and a big contrast. you will stay. we have you on the hook for that. we have our shortest break, 90 seconds, and we get back to that when we come back. when we come back. hellooo new apartment. one bank for now. for later. for life. chase. make more of what's yours. oooh! this is our night! shingles doesn't care. but shingrix protects.

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>> would you direct your fda to revoke access to mifepristone? >> you could do things that will be -- would supplement, absolutely. those things are pretty open. but you have to have a vote. all i want to do is give everybody a vote. the votes are taking place right now as we speak. it's a very -- there are many things on a humane basis you can do outside of that. >> no. >> i don't think he knew what mifepristone is. >> that part. >> he was just -- i don't want to call it winging it because it was word salad. >> it was sure. the first word was sure. we know in project 2025 it says, overturn access to abortion medication and stop allowing access by mail of abortion medication. it's all written there. you add that to the fact he appointed three anti-choice

supreme court justices with the intention of overturning roe. >> on policy, they did this. these are his judges. on politics, even donald trump seems aware -- you saw it in the body language of, don't make a headline about that. you are losing on this issue. >> if he had it his way, abortion won't be a word that's allowed to be spoken on the campaign trail. conversely, you have harris and walz who are drilling this home every single time they address voters. they know how much of a mobilizing it is, has been in 2022 and 2023 when voters crossed partisan lines and demographic lines to support the codification in the state constitution. >> trump named the three supreme court justices who did this. he wants to portray it as a victory. he said everybody wanted roe overturned, which is not true. he would be happy if he could say, leave it to the states and forget about it. there are too many states who will push it further in the

draconian direction. he is going to be tagged with that. he seems to think it's not going to be a volatile issue in november. it's going to drive a lot of votes. it's the number one issue. i do think the women of america and men, too, because it's part of the freedom issue. i love the fact that the democrats are now -- there's a broader umbrella of freedom issues. freedom to mind your own business also. >> yes. >> they talk about abortion as reproductive health care. the democrats have an advantage on this. the republicans have an advantage on immigration. harris went directly at them with an ad this week. she's not afraid of the border. just because we are compassionate doesn't mean we're not strong. that's a carl rove technique, where you go right at your opponent's strength. >> don't wait for them to bring it up.

>> i'm pleased to see that. >> you mentioned immigration. we had one of trump's longest serving advisors, stephen miller, on. you have to fact check and deal with things. it's striking both to get people on record and get them out of the bubble, so you can have what we do here, journalistic questioning, and that they are running from or pretending that they don't want to be about -- here is a brief exchange with stephen miller. >> project 2025 has nothing to do with the past, present, or future. president trump and president trump alone will make his own policies. i can assure you that nobody involved in working on project 2025 in any substantive fashion is going to be involved in any future policy decision. >> you have said that. the former president said that. there are issues where we see a kind of overlap. >> president trump is president

trump. he has his own agenda that is his and his alone. >> eleanor? >> president trump does not like immigrants. i think we could be confident if he is elected that there would be some roundups and some deportations. he is on record of that repeatedly. look what he tried to do when he won in 2016. the muslim bans. this is what he is about. from the minute he came down the escala escalator. the speeches about they are sending -- they are emptying insane asylums. i don't trust him to be at all middle of the road on this. in fact, i trust him more on the abortion issue, because he sees that as a political loser. the only way he would go further to the right on that, as president, would be if there is a republican legislature and they all vote for this and he is driven into it. otherwise, he doesn't want to talk about it.

immigration, he is -- he has a lot of ideas on that one. >> juanita, campaigns are also an information and education process. here we have added harris later than usual. people are learning about her. those who know about her or like her might say, this is great. saying it's great or whatever you think it is, good or bad, is based on what you know about her. a lot of people don't. project 2025 is getting enough attention that they are running from it. as we showed when i was fact checking mr. miller, i showed multiple parts of the gop platform that overlap on abortion, on the immigration issue we discussed at length. as i say, people make up their own minds. it's important to make sure, especially people who have been busy or tired by politics, inflation and covid -- >> who won't read 900 pages. >> this is actually tied to them. if even they won't stand on it, that might tell you something. >> the other reality here that i hope came up in the conversation with stephen miller was it was

written by former trump white house staffers who are jockeying internally for who will lead if trump is elected again in his white house. the reality -- the attempt by stephen miller to say, this isn't us, they did have fingerprints on it. voters need to understand that those same people who wrote this, who are -- the rnc lifted pieces for their 16-page platform will be trying to implement this if trump is elected. the threat is real. the threat is present. >> juanita and eleanor, great to have you both. i could tell you later in the show, we have harris getting this outpouring of support not only from the young people on the internet but specifically black women to white dudes to comedians. we will talk about what's happening. it's different than traditional politics. alex edelman makes his debut

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we are keeping the calendar around here. it's just under three weeks since president biden exited the raise and kamala harris entered. it's been 72 hours since harris brought out tim walz to that big crowd in philadelphia, debuting a brand-new democratic ticket. we have been sharing it for you. i find when we take a minute to take it in, it can be interesting, enlightening. our team of producers, researchers and video editors put this together for you. >> vice president harris has a running mate joining her on the democratic ticket. she's picked tim walz. >> i am now officially the

democratic nominee for president of the united states. since the day that i announced my candidacy, i set out to find a partner who can help build this brighter future. i'm here today because i found such a leader. >> thank you, madam vice president, for the trust you put in me. maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. >> we fight for our future where we defend our most fundamental freedoms. the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body, not having her government tell her what to do. >> in minnesota, we respect our neighbors and personal choices they make. there's a golden rule. mind your own damn business.

>> vice president kamala harris and minnesota governor tim walz sweeping through midwestern swing states. >> as we work to move our nation forward, donald trump intends to take our nation backward. >> you came out here early, found a place to park, stood in the sun, sat here and waited. and you did it. you did it for one simple and eloquent and beautiful reason. you love this country. you love this country. >> donald trump was just found guilty of fraud. 34 counts. the courts are going to handle that. we will beat him in november. >> this is a bit of preaching to the choir, but the choir needs to sing right now. the choir needs to sing. we know that unions built the middle class. the rest of america has to. you know who doesn't believe

that? donald trump. >> you can hear it, the policy, the passion, the joy. what kind of joy? some people say it's almond joy with the coconut tie-in. it's the joy of months of up energy on the democratic side. as we showed you earlier, some say it's the joy of donald trump back on his heels. he hasn't come up with a good nickname for kamala harris. he is busy waxing philosophically about how they were unfair to joe biden. it does feel like more more than 72 hours in the sense a lot is happening. we are living through history. on friday, we have a special guest on this new twist in the race and where we are headed next right after this. prevents heartburn acid before it begins. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. we are living with afib.

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i just have to say it, you know it, you feel it. these guys are creepy, and, yes, just weird as hell. >> that's the new democratic ticket fully filled out. we are joined by meredith mcgraw, the author of a new book that people are talking about, "trump in exile." he might be bothered he is mentioned but not seen. that's sort of the point. we love to go to the source. you have done a lot of reporting. from your book and this period, this strange period of this former president who then, of course, is running for president again, a period when he got

indictments, better news from the supreme court, what did you see then that resonates with the campaign he is running now? >> i think to understand this moment and to understand how trump is now back at the top of the republican party and to understand maybe some of the anxiety he has about this particular political moment, i think it's important to look back to that era. that's what this book does. i covered trump after he left the white house. i covered him in the white house. i got to know the team around him. that includes people like suzy wiles and his political operation and the people who formed this ecosystem around trump that propelled him to this moment. he has had ups and downs since then. >> has he lost a step? >> i think so. at this moment they are trying to regain their footing. you have seen that on display at that press conference at mar-a-lago. bringing all of the national reporters to pepper him with

questions for an hour about all sorts of topics. he got the attention of the national press on cable news net networks. but it seems like they are trying to figure out how to recalibrate. >> politically, he is not getting the amount of wall-to-wall coverage he got in '16. he is not doing rallies he did. some of the headlines that came out of that -- we get it. some of the headlines were not things he wants. him on defense or muddled about abortion. which is not a curveball topic for either candidate to be asked about. obsessing over biden. it's not a strong look in politics to be talking about the past and the intermural debate. it makes her look larger. >> i thought one of the more

animating moments during that press conference was when he was talking about crowd sizes. it's very clear that he is taking note of how big some of the rallies have been for harris and walz. him complaining about the coverage of his own crowd sizes. he goes back to some of these old complaints that he has had for a long time. >> that's because he just doesn't change. that's just who he is. >> yeah. >> go on. >> this is somebody who running for president for a third time. if you think of how much the race has changed in the past four weeks, i was at the rnc in milwaukee, the republican party was riding high. the poll numbers are different for donald trump. he was very confident. he had survived an assassination attempt. the party was rallying around him. right now, you look at polling and he is behind harris in a lot of the battleground states. they are having to make up ground in places they didn't expect to. right before i got on air, i saw

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>> streaming now. we are joined by our friend michelle goldberg. "new york times" columnist. that's a great gig, if you can get it. in 2018 she was part of the team that won the pulitzer prize for public service for reporting on important issues of workplace sexual harassment. welcome to both of you. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> we will get to you. political comedy. you are in the right place. >> sure. >> we do unfunny political comedy. >> most isn't funny. >> is that right? it's been zigzagging for a couple years. we will get to you. michelle, as our hometown hero, what's on your list? >> i think trump campaign manager and his attempt to swift vote tim walz. the most predictable retread imaginable. this was the guy who made swift voting a verb, swift voting john

kerry. he is trying to do it again. not only does he need to fall back, but anything covering this as questions raised about tim walz's military service as opposed to kind of low blow by desperate trump campaign also needs to fall back. >> michelle makes a great point. comedians do callbacks. that came from earlier in the bit. if it's a callback to one of the most shameful attacks on military service, maybe it's a call back we don't need. >> i think it's for anyone who hasn't served their country to make fun of somebody else's -- make fun of anybody else's record. if anyone does anything remotely

in service of the country, they completely have -- >> that's kind of how it works, right? with george w. bush, it was he had evaded service, and so they wanted to neutralize what seemed like an advantage and similarly, you have donald trump, he had bone spurs, but this is going to be the ticket that goes after this guy for serving for only 24 years. >> yeah, well put. alex, you're new here. we welcome you. what on your fallback list? >> i think rfk's bear story has been very, very -- although i have enjoyed it so much. every week, it feels like he cops to a new crazy animal related mishap. like the worm was a couple months ago, so funny. it's actually a hysterical presidential campaign. it feels like the college roommate of mine paid him $60 to run for president. but yeah, i remember when it happened. i remember when they found this bear and said it's -- >> you remember that as a new yorker. >> 1,000 percent.

>> has it been nagging at you all this time? >> there was no one who was like, i know that bear. i worked at merrill lynch for two years. everybody was surprised by this happening. >> to be clear, for the national audience, now it's coming up because of rfk. as you said, it was a big enough story at the time that it was just a mystery. no one knew who left the bear. >> do you remember who wrote "the new york times" article about it? >> it was his relative. >> you know, the call was coming from inside the hyannisport compound. it was completely a family thing, but by the way -- >> they still couldn't give her the tip. >> now, and he told the story to roseanne barr. having a weird day out with a kennedy, with one of the kennedys, and a camera goes on. he's like, i have to tell you this story. >> he tweeted it like, see how you spin this, new yorker. this was a slam dunk. >> yeah.

the guy is -- i don't know if i'm allowed to say the guy is crazy. i'm massively enjoying the campaign. i think it's a rool hoot. it's nice and light. it really takes the edge off. >> you're a comedian so we respect your free speech. we don't call him crazy. i have had him at this very desk. >> don't think he's crazy. i think he's become a delight. the campaign has become a real delight. >> where we overlap on the agreement, sitting down with him as part of the job, you end up as you said, like roseanne barr, and dialogue with people that otherwise as a human you might never. and sitting with him, and i'm curious your view as a comic because you guys ted to have a psychological read on things, because it's all emotions, sitting with him, you got the feeling that he was very perpetually upset. that's what came through. >> yeah. i also feel like he's had a really weird last couple years. for a guy -- >> also first couple years. >> yeah, absolutely. also, isn't he one of like 11

children? many, many -- i think his life has been highly nonstandard, but to go on tv and be like, all right, there was a worm in my brain. the worm ate some of my brain, it died. it will not affect my ability to be president of the united states, is not something you expect to hear from someone running for president of the united states. i want to know what scandal at this point would make him drop out of the race. >> my last question, a silly basic one, but i'm not afraid to be basic. which candidate of all of them is best for comedy right now? >> oh, man. which candidate is the best for comedy? >> you have rfk, donald trump who is a classic, kamala harris is, and we have all gotten to know her over the years, she's into laughter. if you know someone who is a laugher, you like laughers. >> i like kamala. i have performed for kamala and i really enjoyed it. it is weird to perform for the vice president of the united states. i performed for the president, they crossed out some of my jokes. >> what did they cross out?

>> a friend of mine was like, who is politically savy was like, you can't say that. >> what president? >> president biden. >> sure. current president. that's why we brought you on. >> but i really like -- >> what did your friend say was over the line without going over the line? >> it was a broadway for biden benefit. i said the president, he loves -- they were broadway people. he said he loved hamilton because he knew him. >> that's fine. >> and afterwards, biden was like, that was a pretty good joke. the joke was better than your biden impression. >> don't have the impression down. >> that to me, that's an art. we were talking about tim walz as a dad. dad jokes, jokes you can tell at a wedding. that's a different energy. >> tim walz is so funny because he has this basic midwestern dad, like i said yesterday, like, tim walz has this atmosphere where you can imagine him walking into an elevator

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